I just built a brand new machine the other day. Everything was going really great until I was about an hour into playing CoD4 when my machine shut off. Immediately I figured it was a heat problem. Low and behold the cpu was overheating because I didn't seat the stock cooler properly. So I checked it and decided that the thermal paste that came on it wasn't good, so I removed it and applied some arctic silver.
It runs fine now, but I got speedfan anyways and I'm pretty sure I'm running far too hot. What do you think? (System is Q6600 with stock cooler on EVGA 780i, in a NZXT Tempest case)
It runs fine now, but I got speedfan anyways and I'm pretty sure I'm running far too hot. What do you think? (System is Q6600 with stock cooler on EVGA 780i, in a NZXT Tempest case)